This paper considers the possibility of collective action by the business community to counter corruption in the award … probability of winning the license or contract through bribery. An improvement in the government's formal anti-corruption …

Corporate governance in the private sector and corruption are important for economic development and private sector … development. This paper investigates how corporate governance in private-sector media companies can affect public corruption. The … analytical framework, based on models of corporate governance, identifies two channels through which media ownership …

This paper summarizes the methodology of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project, and related analytical … issues. The WGI cover over 200 countries and territories, measuring six dimensions of governance starting in 1996: Voice and … Control of Corruption. The aggregate indicators are based on several hundred individual underlying variables, taken from a …

This paper reports on the latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 … countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2006: Voice and Accountability, Political … Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. This …

This paper summarizes the methodology of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project, and related analytical … issues. The WGI cover over 200 countries and territories, measuring six dimensions of governance starting in 1996: Voice and … Control of Corruption. The aggregate indicators are based on several hundred individual underlying variables, taken from a …

finance, exposure to corruption, and sales growth. Relying on a data set of more than 70,000 firms in 121 countries, the … financial constraints than unaudited firms. On the other hand, audited firms face a significantly higher level of corruption … considerations of the endogeneity of auditing and to alternative measures of corruption and financial constraints. The findings …

Anti-corruption initiatives increasingly use multi-stakeholder groups, comprised of representatives from government …

estimation procedures or the measures of corruption used. In terms of various dimensions of decentralized local governance … corruption in a worldwide context. This is done by presenting the conceptual underpinnings of such relationship as well as using … superior and more defensible measures of both decentralization in its various dimensions as well as corruption for a sample of …

paper examines and rates financial sector strategies around the world based on how well they formulate development targets …, arrangements for systemic risk management, and implementation plans. The strategies are also rated on whether they consider policy … trade-offs between financial development and systemic risk management. The rated strategies are then benchmarked against a …